She lives in Florida, her fiance lives in Florida, but his family is from
Chicago, and they're getting married in Chicago. They're having the reception
at an expensive hotel and my dad wants everyone to stay together, but I got
out of that by pointing out that the hotel has no pool and that's a deal breaker
for us. But staying anywhere "in town" appears to be expensive, and so is
the flight if you go in July.

I've heard that the most popular thing to do in Chicago is to get murdered.
That doesn't sound like fun.

I'm sure zooer is making a tongue-in-cheek comment. He knows that if you're
not within 50 miles of the Bronx you're just not eating pizza. Pizza comes
from New York City. Not Chicago, not Philadelphia, not Italy, only New York.

Oh, and "that place in [whatever crappy city] that is owned by a New York
expat who imports real New York water" is about as real as "Original Ray's".

I thought the layover in Chicago story would be in this room. Hope this wasn't your flight.

A spokesperson from United Airlines confirmed to WHAS that "Flight 3411 from Chicago to Louisville was overbooked. After our team looked for volunteers, one customer refused to leave the aircraft voluntarily and law enforcement was asked to come to the gate.

He refused to voluntarily leave? Doesn't that mean he didn't volunteer to leave? (I don't trust journalism so that quote could be wrong)

Nope, that wasn't my flight ... my final destination was Dallas, not Louisville. Regardless of what actually happened aboard the plane, the truly epic fail was that they allowed too many people to board the plane in the first place.

Nope, that wasn't my flight ... my final destination was Dallas, not Louisville. Regardless of what actually happened aboard the plane, the truly epic fail was that they allowed too many people to board the plane in the first place.

That was my take, too...they knew, before boarding, that they were overbooked. They knew, before boarding, that they had crew that needed to be put on the flight and that they needed to request volunteers and/or bump people. This could have and should have been handled before they boarded the passengers. Period.

They would have been better off unloading and reticketing the whole plane.
And that's probably what they'll do next time, because it seems they're now
trying to do damage control by announcing a new policy that they will no longer
ever bump a seated passenger.

They also could have chosen to unload the entire plane in response to the
one passenger who wouldn't leave. Then everyone would be angry with him instead
of the airline.

The employees of United airlines did not remove him, or harm him, the police were called in and the police smashed his face and dragged him out of the plane. However when it comes to police abuse only some lives matter so the blame was shifted from the police to the airline. The airline handled the entire incident poorly.

Is true. The airline made a mistake. But the man being dragged off the plane
mighta gone a bit stubborn. And the police were absolutely ridiculous. WHile
the ticket information says you may be bumped before boarding, it has nothing
about after you are boarded. So overall... a whole clusterfook and I'm unimpressed
with all involved.

I'm actually not particularly interested in going to Niagra Falls myself;
I'm more interested in just spending quality time with my wife. Plus she's
never been and has wanted to see them, so that's the true motivation behind
the trip. She could have gone to see Old Forge or the like, but honestly,
I think that's even more unimpressive.